Black Friday Air Force blue

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33277, 14 July 1973, Page 1

Black Friday Air Force blue

(Only on Friday the 13th I could this have happened, i to the Air Force right in; front of a press photo-' grapher. The officer commanding the) R.N.Z.A.F. Station. Wig-1 ram (Group Captain T.l A. McL. Morgan) dropped, a long service and good , conduct medal when about to pin it on Lead-! ing Aircraftman G. Lee. l He is shown picking it I up and then talking to L.A.C. Lee after having placed the medal firmly in his hand. iThirty-one years service with the Royal New Zealand I Air Force ended yesterI day afternoon with a farewell parade at Wig-; ' ram for Group Captain Morgan. After formally inspecting the four wings present on i parade he told them that recently he had been asked many times what he considered to have.

been his greatest service achievement. [“This is impossible to answer, but my greatest satisfaction is to complete my service career here at Wigram — the cradle of New Zealand I aviation and the Air Force.” I Group Captain Morgan re- ; minded his listeners of many of the aviation ' achievements which had ‘ taken place "within shouting distance of this airfield.” The group captain, who next week will take up his new post as executive director of Outward j Bound, presented long service and good conI duct medals to Sergeants M. T. H. Johnston. J. G. Marfell. C. W. E. Smith, , and Leading Aircraftman Lee. 'ln keeping with the occasion | the Wigram band played “Now is the Hour” and “Auld Lang Syne.”